inhumev.
/ɪnˈhjuːm/ 1. figurative.1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ii. xxxviii. 26 A whole camps meat he in his gorge inhum'd.1656 S. Holland Don Zara ii. i. 63 I will spare these wretches, and inhume my intended Revenge.1824 T. Hood Two Swans in New Monthly Mag. 10 148 Sorrow..in gross husks of brutes eternally inhumed.1873 E. J. Brennan Witch of Nemi 63 While life and love are close inhumed by death.
a. transitive. To inter, bury (the dead); to lay in the grave.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)]
bedelveOE
begraveOE
burya1000
beburyc1000
bifel-ec1000
layc1000
to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE
tombc1275
gravec1300
inter1303
rekec1330
to lap in leadc1340
to lay to rest, abed, to bed1340
lie1387
to louk in clay (lead, etc.)?a1400
to lay lowa1425
earthc1450
sepulture1490
to put awaya1500
tyrea1500
mould1530
to graith in the grave1535
ingrave1535
intumulate1535
sepult1544
intumil?c1550
yird1562
shrinea1566
infera1575
entomb1576
sepelite1577
shroud1577
funeral1578
to load with earth1578
delve1587
to lay up1591
sepulchrize1595
pit-hole1607
infuneral1610
mool1610
inhumate1612
inurna1616
inhume1616
pit1621
tumulate1623
sepulchrea1626
turf1628
underlay1639
urna1657
to lay to sleep, asleep1701
envaulta1745
plant1785
ensepulchre1820
sheugh1839
to put under1879
to lay away1885
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Inhume, to bury.
a1627 T. Middleton Mayor of Quinborough (1661) iv. ii. 52 Here's a storm Able to make all of our name inhumid.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xxi. 376 No Hand his Bones shall gather, or inhume.
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) xvi. 369 Not a vestige..of their bodies occurred in the rocks or soils in which they had been originally inhumed.
b. transferred. Of the earth or tomb: To cover (the dead). Also figurative. ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)] > said of the earth or tomb
tomba1586
wrap1602
sepulchre1608
inhume1621
intera1631
hearse1796
1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis iv. 103 Here ghosts descend, whose bodies earth inhume.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 576 Th' obscure recesses of this key-cold Tomb, Do Stokeslies ashes, and remains inhume.
1783 J. Hoole tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso II. xi. 242 He op'd his greedy throat that might enhume A horse and horseman in its living tomb!
2. To bury (a thing) in the ground; to cover with soil. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > cover over or up > under the ground or bury
delvec1175
indelve1382
mine?1440
dig1530
bury1535
inter1601
inhume1626
turf1628
earthen1708
inearth1801
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vii. 130 Those in the turn'd-vp furrowes he inhumes.
1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane i. 21 When best to dig, and when inhume the Cane.
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. iii. 34 The catastrophes, whereby the cities were inhumed, might have no relation whatever to the fluctuations in the language of the inhabitants.
Derivatives
inˈhumed adj. buried.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [adjective] > buried
yburied1297
buriedc1440
interredc1440
dowenc1450
tumulate1455
humate1511
graveda1547
ingraved1586
inhumed1610
entombed1626
sepult1898
1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 40 This their inhumed soules esteem'd their wealths.
1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry III. 351 He..forces, by Runic incantation, the inhumed prophetess to utterance.
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